Re: Imperial and metric measurements
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:10:26 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 19, 8:18?am, "Dave Larrington" <smert.spamio...@privacy.net>
wrote:
> Innews:1e8d1f39-a970-404b-9bad-15186a0b5560@v57g2000hse.googlegroups.com,
> zymu...@technologist.com <zymu...@technologist.com> tweaked the
> Babbage-Engine to tell us:
>
> > Heh, Almost. VAX-VMS (a largely defunct mainframe OS [1]) use ...
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Re: OT: Paging the Pratchett fans
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:42:28 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 19, 10:36?am, Ace <b.rog...@ifrance.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:26:23 -0700 (PDT), Champ <nch...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Hmm. ?Someone quoted a line of "We're on a mission from Ghod". ?
>
> "Glod". Which is itself a joke, being an anagram of Gold and hence a
> joke on Dwarves in general.
I'v ...
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Re: OT: Paging the Pratchett fans
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:36:44 +0200
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:26:23 -0700 (PDT), Champ <nchamp@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Hmm. Someone quoted a line of "We're on a mission from Ghod".
"Glod". Which is itself a joke, being an anagram of Gold and hence a
joke on Dwarves in general.
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Paging the old people
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:37:24 +0100
A quick walk down memory lane, available at all good newsagents:
http://www.classicbike.co.uk/jpeg/715/21726309.jpeg
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Anyone lookng for a trackbike?
19 Aug 2008 09:09:34 GMT
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/hondaukracing
ws
I rather fancy the two at the bottom of the page
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Re: Buying a GPZ900R
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:01:46 +0200
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:32:57 +0100, Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
wrote:
>In article <MPG.2313b7a13e71a88d98968e@news.motzarella.org>, ogden
>says...
>> Lozzo wrote:
>> > Bear wrote:
>> >
>> > > They weren't powerful enough to be the absolute killer road machine
>> > > though ... hence the rash of 7/1 ...
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Re: OT: Paging the Pratchett fans
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:36:54 +0200
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:50:34 GMT, Catman
<catman@rustcuore-sportivo.co.uk> wrote:
>Bear wrote:
>>>> With Pratchett it's even easier because he generally trumpets a
>>>> reference in a "HERE'S A REFERENCE!" type way.
>>> I disagree. The Fliemo thing totally passed me by, just to pick on of
>>> the, I suspe ...
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(ot) Dimitri needs a shed
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:17:50 +0200
Nice craftmanship, but see 3rd pic stating from the end...
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1318
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OT: McDonalds in France
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:50:11 +0100
Big article in today's Times: "Why the French are in love with
McDonald's - but won't admit it"
Sounds familiar.
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Re: MGP Practice session
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:16:45 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 18, 10:55 pm, "Tullyhubbert" <tullyhubbert@ (Spam Trap)
yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Gavsta" wrote in message
> > Newcomers practice from tonight - they only got one lap in before it
> > was all rained off :(
>
> Hopefully the weather improves for racing and practice. Its too late for
> this years Ulster though ...
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